For automakers, this meant designing awesome and bewildering cars like the Honda NSX, Mazda RX-7, Nissan Skyline GT-R, the Toyota Supra, and more. Regardless of whether or not the rumor is correct, what is clear is that money was a bit crazy in Japan in the 1980s. Apparently, the land under the Tokyo Imperial Palace was rumored to be as valuable as all of the land in California. Toss in reported overconfidence in Japan’s economy and speculation and you have asset values going through the roof.Īs an explainer of Japan’s bubble economy notes, prices of land in Tokyo’s sought-after neighborhoods became 350 times more expensive than comparable land in Manhattan. Combine Japan’s industrial success with deregulation and excess liquidity in the banking system, and there were banks taking more and more risks. As this happened, Japanese people were sitting on money from saving after World War II and the country’s banks got really lenient with lending. Japanese people were living longer and the country’s GDP was up there or better than that of some western countries. Japan’s industrial stride has been called an “Economic Miracle” and it led to a spike in the country’s standard of living. Japan was getting so good at electronics that reportedly, some people thought Sony and Hitachi would scoop up Intel and IBM. By the late 1980s, people around the world were happily scooping up Honda motorcycles, driving Toyota cars, jamming out to tunes on their Sony Walkmans, and playing games on their Nintendo consoles. Japan’s industries had spent decades inventing new products and refining existing ones. Stocks and real estate values soared to practically incomprehensible levels driven by speculation. Many of the cars enthusiasts adore come from Japan’s bubble economy of the 1980s. It’s not a thrilling supercar or a hero car from a videogame, but it is still something different. Less talked about are the more normal cars that were never sold in America but are still pretty awesome.
Some of the vehicles on that list are now legal to import, but enthusiasts of those cars had to wait so long to have them. Maybe you want a Holden Ute, a Honda Civic Type R, a Volkswagen Scirocco R, a Renault Clio V6, a Subaru Impreza 22B, a Suzuki Jimny, a BMW M5 Touring, or so many more sweet cars. Many of the cars enthusiasts drool over are icons like the Nissan Skyline R34 or weird machines like the aforementioned Renault Avantime. Amazingly, the LSS was faster in a straight line than Oldsmobile’s claimed competition, but few people ever bought them. When the Oldsmobile Aurora made its debut, parts from that car trickled down into the LSS, which became its own standalone model. It was the top-of-the-line Eighty Eight with a sport suspension and a center console shifter. As part of its effort to freshen its image, Oldsmobile unleashed the Luxury Sports Sedan. The automaker wanted to attract young professionals, but they were buying BMWs, Acura, and Lexus cars, not Oldsmobiles. This GM H-body came at a strange time for Oldsmobile. Last time on Holy Grails, I briefly let my wife take the wheel to tell you about her grail, the Oldsmobile LSS. The Mazda Astina was a Japanese Bubble Era masterpiece of a fastback sedan with pop-up headlights and, later, it became a sleek early example of a four-door coupe with a dash of Porsche influence. If you’re a fan of Mazda, now is the right time to pick up a Mazda you’ve probably never heard of before. We still have to wait to buy something like a Renault Avantime and it’s going to be a long while before I can pick up a Smart Roadster.
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One of the more frustrating parts about being a car enthusiast in America is watching what drivers in other countries get to buy.
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